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  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 706,
    "subject": "Clute's review of OBW",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-11-02T11:20:30+00:00",
    "last": "1999-11-03T00:19:50+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0143@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nicholas Gevers",
        "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-02T11:20:30+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Clute's review of OBW",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "A very interesting review of ON BLUE'S WATERS by John\nClute appears online in the latest SF WEEKLY. He\nstates that Tor will release both IN GREEN'S JUNGLES\nand RETURN TO THE WHORL in 2000, and speculates\n(perhaps on the basis of textual inference, perhaps\nfrom privileged information) that RETURN TO THE WHORL\nconcerns events that occur after Horn's writing of ON\nBLUE'S WATERS.\n\n\n====="
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0144@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William H. Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-03T00:19:50+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Clute's review of OBW",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0010-0143@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "A very interesting review of ON BLUE'S WATERS by John\nClute appears online in the latest SF WEEKLY. He\nstates that Tor will release both IN GREEN'S JUNGLES\nand RETURN TO THE WHORL in 2000, and speculates\n(perhaps on the basis of textual inference, perhaps\nfrom privileged information) that RETURN TO THE WHORL\nconcerns events that occur after Horn's writing of ON\nBLUE'S WATERS."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Interesting is hardly the word for Clute's speculation, quoted above. It\ndon't make no sense! I think it is pretty clear that Horn has visited and\nreturned from The Whorl already by the time he has written OBW from the\nhints contained within. If that is so, then shouldn't the title of the\nfinal book be _Re-return to the Whorl_?\n\nWell, one more reason I just can't wait.\n\nWilliam Ansley\n\n\"Having re-redisposed of the monster, our hero exits stage right.\"\n-Bugs Bunny\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    }
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